Examples of lumberyard in a Sentence
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Life in the Railroad Yards in the 1940s At the spurs—small railroads that lead into or away from factories, sawmills, lumberyards, and packing houses—the trains stopped.
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Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
Clemente was found without his phone or wallet on him, in a section of the creek that fronts a lumberyard.
—Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2023
These campfire tales — the funniest of which involves a lumberyard worker (Anthony Sonigo) blithely caught in a wood chipper — are the true heart of the film.
—Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
Those projects have gobbled up much of the available open space and prompted town officials to look to downtown Truckee where vast railyards and a lumberyard presented an opportunity to build a new sort of housing — denser multifamily condos and apartments serving full-time residents.
—J.k. Dineen, SFChronicle.com, 25 Aug. 2020
His father, Willie, worked in a lumberyard, and his mother, Mary (Gilliam) Holt, was a homemaker who sometimes taught crocheting and worked as a nurse’s aide.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 2 June 2023
Door-maker Steves & Sons Inc., one of San Antonio’s oldest businesses, began as a lumberyard near the Alamo.
—ExpressNews.com, 1 Oct. 2020
Also in September, the company acquired Fulcrum Building Group, which operates lumberyards and millwork facilities along the Gulf Coast in Florida and Alabama.
—Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
This behind me was a lumberyard.
—ABC News, 26 Mar. 2023
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Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
Clemente was found without his phone or wallet on him, in a section of the creek that fronts a lumberyard.
—Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2023
These campfire tales — the funniest of which involves a lumberyard worker (Anthony Sonigo) blithely caught in a wood chipper — are the true heart of the film.
—Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
Those projects have gobbled up much of the available open space and prompted town officials to look to downtown Truckee where vast railyards and a lumberyard presented an opportunity to build a new sort of housing — denser multifamily condos and apartments serving full-time residents.
—J.k. Dineen, SFChronicle.com, 25 Aug. 2020
His father, Willie, worked in a lumberyard, and his mother, Mary (Gilliam) Holt, was a homemaker who sometimes taught crocheting and worked as a nurse’s aide.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 2 June 2023
Door-maker Steves & Sons Inc., one of San Antonio’s oldest businesses, began as a lumberyard near the Alamo.
—ExpressNews.com, 1 Oct. 2020
Also in September, the company acquired Fulcrum Building Group, which operates lumberyards and millwork facilities along the Gulf Coast in Florida and Alabama.
—Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
This behind me was a lumberyard.
—ABC News, 26 Mar. 2023
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First Known Use
1753, in the meaning defined above
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“Lumberyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lumberyard. Accessed 4 Oct. 2023.
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lumberyard
noun
lum·ber·yard
-ˌyärd 
: a place where lumber is kept for sale
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